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Assistant Project Manager

Employer
BAE Systems
Location
Rochester
Salary
Negotiable
Closing date
16 Sep 2022

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Sector
Project Management
Hours
Full Time
Flexibility
Flexible working available
Contract Type
Permanent

Job Details

Job Title: Assistant Project Manager

Location: Rochester

Salary: Up to £33,000 depending on skills and experience

What you'll be doing:

  • Maintaining excellent customer relations
  • Managing team and personnel
  • Supporting the development and maintenance of a detailed project plan that embraces all elements of the project
  • Implementing and utilising Earned Value Management methodologies when appropriate
  • Taking responsibility of specific Work Packages and project tasks
  • Supporting the project or bid team to ensure all milestones and targets are achieved
  • Using project management techniques, to enable early identification of problems and implementation of mitigation actions
  • Achieving the agreed project cost, sales, margin and cash flow targets

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

  • A proven track record in Project Management in an engineering development environment with awareness of Commercial and Financial skills
  • Proven ability to motivate, influence, and manage people effectively
  • You will have solid problem solving and analytical capabilities

Desirable

  • Strong well-rounded business knowledge with focus on the customer
  • Team leading skills

Benefits:

You'll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You'll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The BAE Systems Electronic Systems team:

The BAE Systems Electronic Systems team is responsible for extremely complex and innovative projects, and we are looking for an enthusiastic and talented Assistant Project Manager. You will be involved in all aspects of project management as a member of this team. You will assist the Project Manager with day-to-day management activities in order to meet the project's time, cost, and quality goals. This position will give you the opportunity to advance your career within Project Management and Electronic Systems.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you'll be able to make a real difference. You'll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please communicate to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Company

BAE Systems plc is a British multinational defence, security and aerospace company head-quartered in London in the United Kingdom and with operations worldwide.

Recognising that our people are our top priority we have set ourselves a number of corporate targets to improve the diversity and inclusiveness of our workforce, including uplifting our female representation in leadership roles by 15% by 2015. We recognise the challenge that this target presents, knowing that engineering is often seen as a “man’s world”. 

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